
Late last year, I discussed my life-long love of reading and the past decade or so of my favorites in Note 26. In early January, I covered my 2023 year in books in Note 27. That was quite an undertaking and I decided that this year I will break it down into smaller pieces and…

Happy New Year! I hope everyone has a wonderful 2024! As promised in my previous post, here’s my 2023 reading summary – drum roll, please…. Books Read in 2023 Total Books: 60 Total Pages: 19167 Average: 319 Longest: 1045 Shortest: 83 Genres: 10 (Adventure Fiction, Biographical Historical Fiction, Biography, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Mystery, Mythology,…

I love to read. Always have. I recently realized I’ve read over 500 books since 2011. My mom, sister, and I were discussing this milestone, and my sister asked if I’d requested to stop at a library on the way home from the hospital after my birth! Maybe not, but I vividly remember the trips…

Half the fun for me in taking a trip is the planning. First, a follow-up to a my comment in Note 1 that this is our first “really big” trip post-pandemic. We did go on a “big” 12-day trip last fall to Greece with a half-day in Turkey. It was a fully escorted 10-day tour…